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How Did You Get Into CMM Programming?

ALousyUser
Just as the title says - how'd you first make your stake as a CMM programmer?

For me it was when a recruiter on LinkedIn randomly reached out to me asking if I was interested in being a Metrologist for an international company while I was working as a Quality Inspector at a job shop in 2020, just before the pandemic. I knew nothing about Metrology/CMM programming until I blew the technical portion of the interview process and got hired anyway haha! Ended up being mentored by a professional for 2 years before moving onto a specialized CMM programming gig at another company in 2022.

I figured - as it seems like a lot of us got on-the-job training for CMM programming, you guys/gals must have some interesting stories to share about how you got to where you are now, as CMM programmers.
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  • I was a quality tech and floor inspector. The programmer I shared the lab with was a guy who had been running CMMs and such since probably the 70's and he was showing me how to setup and run his programs. It was a way to help him out when he had to do work with the roamer arm we had. 6 months after I started intermittently working with him on the CMM, he got diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and took a leave of absence. The company knew I knew how to run his program library and sent me to CMM 101 at Hexagon. That was over 10 years ago. Between what he left me and what I picked up from Hexagon training and here, I pretty much taught myself what I could.
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  • I was a quality tech and floor inspector. The programmer I shared the lab with was a guy who had been running CMMs and such since probably the 70's and he was showing me how to setup and run his programs. It was a way to help him out when he had to do work with the roamer arm we had. 6 months after I started intermittently working with him on the CMM, he got diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and took a leave of absence. The company knew I knew how to run his program library and sent me to CMM 101 at Hexagon. That was over 10 years ago. Between what he left me and what I picked up from Hexagon training and here, I pretty much taught myself what I could.
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